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(Reason). "What Makes You Different, Makes You Dangerous" -- that's not just a tagline from Divergent. It's true in politics, too!
I think Rand Paul could lead us to a modern variation of the Old Right, which valiantly struggled against FDR's unconsionable government interventionism in domestic and international affairs. A number of ideologues below are put off by his less strident rhetoric and more pragmatic politics, but this senator is the unquestioned Senate leader in defense of individual liberty, the danger of activist monetary policy, and against this administration's foreign meddling.
I can't see why anyone would vote for him.
He has a fundamentally different perspective than any viable candidate in decades, and he would draw better outside the party base.
(Cato Institute). "Is it possible that 'fast-track viewing' means that Congress thinks the concept is dead and that those who wish to pursue trade reform should do so through other means?"
One can only hope that sanity will strike and that abomination TPP will be buried. So called free trade has reduced the USA to third world status. unlimited imports must be stopped or we will all be subservient to China.
What irrational crackpot nonsense! We have about 5% of the world's population but nearly a quarter of global GDP. The threat to our economic future does not come from giving consumers more value and variety for their precious dollars (we cannot compete in business models based on commodity labor) but from megalomaniac government intervention in the economy, which never ends well.
Fast track is undemocratic, period. Nothing can be said to prove this wrong.
If what you mean by "undemocratic" is bypassing populist demagogue sabotage of win-win free trade pacts, that's a good thing. Pandering to fear-mongering economic illiterates whom have no faith in our economy's resilience and competitiveness is utterly pathetic.
(Illinois Policy Institute). One step closer to victory. Progressive tax legislation fails in House committee on bipartisan vote. Next fight is Sen. Harmon's progressive tax hike SJRCA 40.
It's a good tax hike its on the higher income
I don't think some people understand what the difference is between a flat and progressive tax. In a flat tax system, if you make 10 times more income, you're also paying 10 times more taxes. In a progressive system the more you make, you have to pay even more of each dollar you earn, to the point that you're working more for various levels of government than yourself--not that you get any better government goods and services for all your additional taxes. It's the reverse of a quantity discount where you pay less per item as you buy more: the more income you earn, the more extortionist plundering Statists think is their surcharge take of your income.
(Catholic Libertarians) What should the Holy Father say to the president? ~Mark
Stop your international meddling, protect preborn life, end your policies threatening religious liberty (e.g., ObamaCare), and stop imitating socialist policies that have failed in places like Cuba, Venezuela, and Argentina.
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Barbra Streisand, "Somewhere". Ignoring her pedestrian "progressive" politics, my biggest complaint is Streisand's voice is better than her material (I say the same thing about Mariah Carey). I mean really: "people who need people are the luckiest people in the world"; "love, soft as an easy chair"--I can see maybe downy feathers, but furniture? I have always loved Barbra's tone, but with few exceptions (like her interpretation of "Ave Maria"), the material never lived up to her promise. I felt if I had been blessed with her talent, I could have been this age's Frank Sinatra. I still remember when I heard the sweeping arrangement of this Broadway classic coming over the radio for the first time--it was pure magic....
